Their missioners and preachers had brought more than 250,000 new adherents into the church.

This wing is promoting a modified socialism with the hopes of attracting new adherents in the future.

And I keep saying to our new adherents, 'It's a big country out there.'

These new adherents, officials say, are changing the marathon from an athletic event to a social event.

As the militants saw it, providing services would help swell the movement's ranks with new adherents.

Cigarettes and faith: smoking and God have attracted many new adherents among the soldiers of the 69th.

This was intended to lead new adherents to understand the bourgeois world, and thus to develop a scientifically founded position toward it.

A less common purpose is to teach new adherents of a religion.

Charmed, new adherents soon took up the tradition.

He was also being overly generous with new adherents, and the old followers began to grumble.